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Donald Grant Mitchell, Honorary, New Haven 

Frederick Woodward Skiff, . West Haven 

William Newnham Chattin Carlton, Hartford 

John Murphy, . . . New Haven 

Albert Carlos Bates, . . Hartford 

Charles Lewis Nichols Camp, . New Haven 

Charles Thomas Wells, . . Hartford 

George Seymour Godard, . Hartford 

Frederic Clarence Bissell, . . Willimantic 

Joline Butler Smith, . . New Haven 

William Fowler Hopson, . New Haven 

Frank Addison Corbin, . . New Haven 

Henry Russell Hovey, . . Hartford 

Frank Butler Gay, . . Hartford 

Mahlon Newcomb Clark, . Hartford 

William John James, . . Middletown 

Lucius Albert Barbour, . . Hartford 

Martin Leonard Roberts, . . New Haven 

Charles Yale Beach, . . Bridgeport 

Addison Van Name, . . New Haven 

Deceased 
Charles Jeremy Hoadly 



At a Meeting of the Executive Committee of 
the Acorn Club in Hartford, October 22, 1900, it 
was Voted, That the Secretary of the Club pre- 
pare a Memoir of our late Honorary Member, 
Charles J. Hoadly, LL.D., and that the Club issue 
it as a regular publication, accompanied by a por- 
trait OR PORTRAITS OF Dr. HoaDLY. 



ALTHOUGH the lifetime of the subject of 
this memoir exceeded the traditional 
three-score years and ten, it was marked 
by no series of eventful changes, nor 
large participation in the public affairs of the state 
whose official he was for more than forty-five years. 
In those spheres of the world's life wherein most 
men must perforce be active, with whose activi- 
ties they must necessarily concern themselves, and 
success in which is popularly regarded as the sign 
manual of greatness, his name was never conspicuous. 
He chose the quiet, retired life of a scholar and lived 
it with an unswerving precision that reminds one of 
the philosopher of Konigsberg. Heine's description 
of Kant might, with a change of only a word or two, 
apply with almost equal fitness to Dr. Hoadly. "Die 
Lebensgeschichte des Immanuel Kant," says the Ger- 
man critic, " ist schwer zu beschreiben. Denn er hatte 
weder Leben noch Geschichte. Er lebte ein mechan- 
isch geordnetes, fast abstraktes Hage-stolzenleben in 
einem stillen abgelegenen Gasschen zu Konigsberg. 
Ich glaube nicht dass die grosse Uhr der dortigen 
Kathedrale leidenschaftsloser und regelmassiger ihr 
ausseres Tagewerk vollbrachte, wie ihr Landsmann 
Immanuel Kant. . . . Alles hatte seine bestimmte 



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Zeit, und die Nachbaren wussten ganz genau, dass 
die Glocke halb vier sei, wenn Immanuel Kant. . . . 
aus seiner Hausthiire trat. . . . Die guten Leute sahen 
in ihm nichts Anderes als einen Professor der Philos- 
ophic, und wenn er zur bestimmten Stunde vorbeiwan- 
delte, griissten sie freundlich, und richteten etwa nach 
ihm ihre Taschenuhr." ' In like manner viewing ex- 
ternal features only, it may be said that the average 
citizen of Hartford saw in Dr. Hoadly only a learned 
antiquarian whose memory was stored with the history 
and traditions of the past ; who was familiar with and 
could distinguish the handwriting of every early Con- 
necticut settler, who could explain the significance of 
the color of a seventeenth century wax seal; but 
whose mind and interests were far removed from the 
busy, practical life of his own day. His regularity 
also was proverbial among those who knew him, 
and his fellow townsmen would not have been far 
wrong had they set their timepieces by him, as the 
good citizens of Konigsberg did by their philosopher. 
He took only one extended vacation. An attempt at 
another proved a failure ; he was back at his post be- 
fore a week was out. There is no doubt but that in 
this quiet, retired, and uneventful life Dr. Hoadly 
found more pleasure and content than falls to the lot 
of most men. 

He took a just and honorable pride in his ancestry 
and did much toward adding to our knowledge ot the 



1 Zur Geschichte der Religion und Philosophic in Deutschland. 



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history of the Hoadley family and of its chief repre- 
sentatives in this country and in England. He was 
the proud possessor of the original parchment of the 
grant of arms to the English Hoadleys. A peculiarity 
of his own was that he insisted upon spelling the name 
Hoadly instead of Hoadley, the form adopted by 
almost all other members of the family. The name 
is thought to be derived from one of two parishes 
in Sussex, East and West Hoadley (now spelled 
Hoathly), and the family undoubtedly had its origin 
in the south of England. In New England the 
earliest settlers of the name were John ot Guilford 
and William of Branford. It is probable that these 
two emigrants were related, but no evidence is extant 
which substantiates the fact. 

John Hoadley was a non-conforming clergyman of 
the Church of England. He came to America in 1639 
with the Rev. Henry Whitfield, who, having refused 
to read the Book of Sports, resigned his rectory, sold his 
estate, and, accompanied by a number of persons from 
Surrey, Sussex, and Kent, embarked for New England. 
In July, 1639, they landed at New Haven, from, it is 
said, " the first ship that ever cast anchor in that port." 
This company founded the town of Guilford. The 
increase of the church there was very slow until 1643, 
when seven "pillars" were chosen to draw up a 
doctrine of faith. John Hoadley was one of these 
seven. After remaining some sixteen years, he re- 
turned to England, became chaplain to General Monk, 



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and was conspicuous as a partisan of the royalist 
cause. 2 

John's son Samuel, born in Guilford, was the first 
native of Connecticut who wrote and published a 
book. His Natural Method of teaching, being the Ac- 
cidence in Questions and Answers. London, 1683, a 
kind of English and Latin grammar combined, was 
one of the most popular school books of the eighteenth 
century. In 1773 it reached its eleventh edition. 
This Samuel had, by his second wife, a family of nine 
children. Among them were John, successively arch- 
bishop of Dublin and of Armagh, and Benjamin, 
bishop of Bangor. Dr. Hoadly was especially proud 
of his distant connection with this famous bishop, who 
was truly enough, as Leslie Stephen observes, "•the 
best hated clergyman of the [18th] century among 
his own order." 3 It was this Benjamin Hoadley's 
memorable sermon On the Kingdom of Christ, preached 
before the King in March, 1717, that precipitated the 
historic Bangorian Controversy. Therein he set forth 
with great clearness and vigor doctrines quite subver- 
sive of the whole theory and position of the High 

3 "Hon. Charles J. Hoadly has interesting information which he 
will publish soon, showing that substantial benefits rendered the 
cause of Charles II. by Rev. John Hoadley were remembered by 
succeeding monarchs, and in part account for the peculiar favors 
shown the grandsons of John Hoadley by royalty." Proceedings 
at the 2joth Anniversary of the Settlement of Guilford, Connecticut, 
Sept. 8-10, 1889. Note, p. 223. 

3 History of English Thought, 2 : 152. 



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Church party. It is probable that no other sermon 
ever produced so voluminous a controversy, or excited 
in clerical circles so prolonged an agitation. Bishop 
Hoadley was openly supported by the King and the 
court. When the Lower House of Convocation drew 
up a severe and elaborate remonstrance against the 
sermon it was promptly prorogued, and although the 
House continued to be formally assembled with every 
Parliament, more than a century passed before it again 
obtained a royal license enabling it to transact busi- 
ness. 4 

It was from William of Branford that Dr. Hoadly 
was descended. This settler, born in England about 
1630, first appears at Saybrook in 1663. Three years 
later he bought the home-lot of Rev. Abraham Pierson, 
of Branford, and thenceforth throughout his life, the 
records show that he was one of the leading men in 
the community, taking a prominent part in all its 
civic and religious affairs. 

His name appears on the new Plantation Cove- 
nant of Branford, January 20, 1667-8; in October, 
1669, he was admitted a freeman of the Colony; later 
he became a selectman, and between 1678 and 1685 
he represented his town at nine sessions of the Gen- 
eral Assembly. On February 16, 1685-6, he was 
one of its patentees. In the time of Sir Edmond An- 
dros he was one of the grand jurors at a court of quar- 

4 Lecky, History of England in the 18th century, 1887. 1 : 271, 
272. 



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ter sessions held at New Haven in June, 1688. He 
died in November or December, 1709, aged about 
79 years, leaving an estate that was inventoried at 
£1,166. 3s. 2d. 

Samuel, the son of William, was one of several to 
whom was granted on March 4, 1687, a P arce l of land 
one mile square in the western and northwestern part 
of Branford. The two following generations of Wil- 
liam's line pursued the careers of prosperous farmers. 

The grandfather of Charles, Hon. Jeremy Hoad- 
ley, was born in Branford in 1776. In 1798 he mar- 
ried and for three years lived in Guilford. Thence he 
removed to Hartford in 1806, soon becoming one of 
its foremost and best known citizens. He was a 
selectman of the town for more than twenty years, an 
alderman of the city and its acting mayor from No- 
vember 23, 1835, to April 13, 1836. He represented 
Hartford in the General Assembly at the sessions of 
1822, 1823, 1826, and 1828, and from the latter year 
until 1834 he held the responsible office of sheriff' of 
Hartford county. During the presidential campaigns 
of 1836 and 1840 he was chairman of the Whig state 
central committee. He was a devout and loyal 
Churchman, being one of the early vestrymen of the 
parish of Christ church, and the last of the " clerks " 
appointed to lead the responses and to give out the 
psalms and hymns. His son, William Henry Hoad- 
ley, was born in Guilford in 1800. He married Har- 
riet Louisa Hillyer, and their eldest son was Charles 
Jeremy Hoadly. 



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On his mother's side Dr. Hoadly was descended 
from well known colonial families. His maternal 
grandparents were Andrew Hillyer, a colonel in the 
war of the revolution, and Lucy Tudor. The latter's 
father, Dr. Elihu Tudor of South Windsor, Connecti- 
cut, was a graduate of Yale (1750) and one of the 
best educated physicians of his time. During the 
French war he served as surgeon with the British forces 
and was with General Wolfe when that hero fell at 
Quebec. With his son-in-law, Colonel Hillyer, Dr. 
Tudor was also present at the siege and capture of 
Havana, August 13, 1762, by the English fleet under 
Admiral Pococke and the Duke of Albemarle. He 
received half pay from the British government from 
his retirement in 1767 till his death in 1826 at the 
advanced age of ninety-three years, and it is said that 
the Treasury officials once sent special inquiries as to 
whether he could still be living. The lives of Dr. 
Tudor and his granddaughter, the mother of Dr. 
Hoadly, covered a period of one hundred and eighty- 
five years, more than twenty of which overlapped. 
Dr. Tudor's wife was Lucretia Brewster, a direct de- 
scendant of William Brewster, Chief of the Pilgrims. 
Charles Jeremy Hoadly was born in Hartford on 
August 1, 1828. His preparatory education was ob- 
tained at the Hopkins Grammar School in that city, 
and in 1847 ne entered Trinity College in the same 
place. His academic career was a distinguished one 
and left a marked impress on all his later life. In 



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1849 ^ e g a i ne d the President's Prize for the best Latin 
rendering of a passage from Lord Bacon's essay On 
Studies. The prize was a set of Dyce's Shakespeare, 
and was always carefully treasured by its owner, who 
gave it a prominent place on his bookshelves. He 
was graduated at the head of his class in 1851, deliv- 
ering on that occasion the valedictory oration. At 
Commencement in 1854 ne received the degree of 
Master of Arts in Course, taking as the subject of his 
master's oration The Laws of the XII Tables. 

Upon leaving college he entered the office of 
Henry Barnard, then superintendent of public instruc- 
tion, and at the same time took up the study of the 
law with Messrs. Welch and Shipman. In 1854 he 
was appointed librarian of Trinity College. Early in 
1855 he was admitted to the bar by Judge, afterwards 
Chief Justice, Seymour, but he never entered upon the 
active practice of this profession, for in April of the 
same year he was called to the position of State Libra- 
rian in succession to James Hammond Trumbull. 
His classical education and legal training had given 
him the best of preparation for this position, and at 
the age of twenty-seven he entered upon his duties 
admirably equipped for the tasks that lay before him. 
And in no sense were these light or unimportant ones. 

The Resolution of the General Assembly, passed 
at its May session, 1854, authorizing the State Library 
Committee to appoint a librarian, outlined the latter's 
duties as follows: "to take charge of the State Library, 



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to arrange, catalogue, and index the same, and to have 
bound such unbound books or works belonging to 
the library as the said committee shall deem to be of 
sufficient value to the State to warrant the expense; 
also to make such State and national exchanges of 
books and works as are now required by law; also to 
discharge the duties required of the secretary of State 
under the registration laws relating to births, mar- 
riages, and deaths, and to make report to the next 
General Assembly on all matters embraced within this 
resolution." 

The condition of the State Library at that time 
was not one in which Connecticut could take pride. 
The whole number of volumes, including those pre- 
pared for binding, was about three thousand. At the 
state house in New Haven there were some fifteen 
hundred more, chiefly duplicates. The situation had 
been clearly set forth by Dr. Trumbull in his report to 
the General Assembly at its May session in 1855. 
" As yet, Connecticut has only the beginnings of a 
library, not entirely complete in any of its depart- 
ments, and in some, very deficient — far from being 
adequate to supply necessary books of reference to the 
legislators, judges, State officers, and others who have 
occasion to resort to it. Its increase has been, neces- 
sarily, very slow, having been mainly dependent on 
exchanges with other States, [and] the receipt of pub- 
lic documents and other works distributed by Con- 
gress. . . . No provision has been made for pur- 



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chasing, nor (until last year) for binding even the more 
indispensable volumes of almost daily reference; and 
it is almost incredible that, up to the present time, no 
authorized measures have been taken to secure the 
preservation, in the State Library or elsewhere in any 
department of either capitol, of a single complete 
copy of the statute laws, annual messages and reports 
of judicial decisions, even of the State of Connecticut, 
(except a resolution, passed in 1847, authorizing the 
purchase of such volumes of the 'Connecticut Reports' 
as were necessary to make the broken series, then in 
the Library, complete.)" With what diligence and 
vigor Dr. Hoadly prosecuted the work of remedying 
these defects may be gathered even from the brief and 
modest report that he presented to the Assembly at 
the end of his first year of service. Therein he was 
able to say that the number of volumes in the Library 
had nearly doubled, "so that an entire rearrangement 
has been necessary, which has accordingly been made 
The Library has nearly completed the series of Judi- 
cial Reports of the several States, and at present Con- 
necticut makes exchanges with every State where the 
decisions are reported." " Great care has been taken 
for the preservation of the books, none being permit- 
ted to be taken from the building, save by the Judges, 
or upon the order of a member of the Library Com- 
mittee, and none to leave the Library room without a 
memorandum thereof made." The efficiency of his 
guardianship is attested by the fact that during his 



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forty years' service but one volume was missed from 
the Library, and that was found behind a row of other 
books by his successor. 

In accordance with the resolution of the General 
Assembly passed in 1854, Dr. Hoadly, from 1855 to 
1878, prepared annually the " Report to the General 
Assembly relating to the Registration of Births, Mar. 
riages, and Deaths." Upon the creation of the State 
Board of Health this work naturally devolved upon 
the members of that body. 

Dr. Hoadly early determined upon a definite and 
sound policy for the development of the Library 
committed to his charge, and excepting in a few mi- 
nor details never departed from it. The State Li- 
brary Committee were inclined to think it sufficient to 
supply compilations and abridged or condensed series 
of law reports. Their Librarian, however, was more far- 
seeing as well as better informed. He insisted upon 
purchasing, whenever possible, only the full, com- 
plete, and original reports, even though it might be 
at a greater expense of money and of time in waiting 
for an opportunity of obtaining them. This enlight- 
ened policy resulted in his finally acquiring complete 
sets of the originals of all official American reports, 
practically complete series of those for England, 
Scotland, and Ireland, and also those of Canada so far 
as they have a bearing upon our law and jurispru- 
dence. 

In his first annual report he asked for authoriza- 



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tion to begin the purchase of collections of statutes. 
Whether granted or not he at once commenced to 
do so, and pursued the same policy as in the case of 
the law reports. His aim was to procure every offi- 
cial revision and every issue of the session laws of the 
United States and of the individual states and territo- 
ries; and also of the United Kingdom and the 
Dominion of Canada. As all students of legal bib- 
liography well know, complete success in such an 
endeavor is practically impossible, but Dr. Hoadly 
attained an astonishing closeness to it. To furnish 
these reports and statutes was, as he conceived it, the 
main purpose of the library. He believed that it 
should be, first of all, a complete and thoroughly 
equipped special collection for the use of legislators, 
judges, and members of the legal profession. Later 
on, he began to gather small but valuable collections 
relating to the general and local history of Connecti- 
cut, the documentary histories and state papers of 
sister commonwealths, and complete editions of the 
writings of the fathers of the republic and of the 
more prominent later statesmen. 

To him, the principle of completeness was a vital 
one. In his view it was quite immaterial how many 
volumes a library contained ; the chief point he cared 
for or wished to know about was the degree of com- 
pleteness in the documents and literature of the sub- 
jects it professed to include or to represent. The 
truly great library was the one which embraced most 



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fully the literary materials for the study and investi- 
gation of one or more subjects. In theory this posi- 
tion is impregnable. Wherever such a policy can 
be put into effect it results in noble service to schol- 
arship and human progress, but the places are ex- 
tremely few where it can be applied. In most libra- 
ries, general or institutional, satisfactory completeness 
in special departments can be obtained only by means 
of specific endowments. Dr. Hoadly was fortunate 
in being able to carry out this policy with neither 
hindrance nor interruption. It must have afforded 
him keen satisfaction to know, as for many years he 
did know, that as regards completeness, few state 
libraries in the Union equaled and none surpassed 
that of Connecticut. Nor was it in American law 
alone that it excelled. An English author, 5 whose 
wide researches have made him an authority on the 
subject, states positively that with the exception of 
the British Museum, Oxford, and Cambridge Univer- 
sity libraries, no collection in Great Britain is so 
well equipped with printed materials for the study of 
English constitutional history as is the one of which 
Dr. Hoadly was the real creator. Making all due 
allowance for the support which he received from 
successive governors and legislatures, the chief credit 
for the state library's excellence is due to him. It is 
pleasant to record that this was cordially recognized 
during his lifetime and is not yet entirely forgotten. 

5 Edward Porritt, Esq. 



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In this connection it is fitting to record the service 
he rendered to the library of Trinity College. Al- 
though his librarianship there lasted but a year his 
personal interest in it ceased only with his death. 
For many years he was the representative of the 
trustees on the library committee, and a very large 
number of the works added during that time seem to 
have been purchased by his direct order and on his 
sole responsibility. Here, too, he carried out his 
favorite policy of selecting a few definite subjects and 
making their representation as strong and complete 
as possible. The subjects chosen in this case strongly 
reflect his personal likings. They indicate especially 
his predilection for the classics, mathematics, and the 
antiquarian or historical side of certain sciences. His 
influence on the college library is especially to be 
seen in its curious and interesting collections of early 
medical works, books on alchemy and astrology ; in 
its very complete series of the collected works of 
ancient, mediaeval, and modern mathematicians, as- 
tronomers, physicists, and chemists, as well as in many 
valuable compends relating to classical archaeology 
and inscriptions. He also urged the purchase of all 
the important lexicons of the modern languages of 
Europe, and as a consequence, the library now pos- 
sesses an excellent collection of such works. 

His personal gifts of books were many and fre- 
quent. For the most part they supplemented the 
departments he was chiefly interested in building up 



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and completing. The total number of volumes pre- 
sented by him during his lifetime was very large, and 
must have represented a considerable sum of money. 
During his stay in London he purchased a beautiful 
copy of the ,: ThesaurusGraca Lingua a Henrico Ste- 
phano constructus, in the edition revised and aug- 
mented by the Dindorfs and printed by Firmin Didot 
at Paris in 1851. The nine imposing folio volumes 
of which this magnificent work consists is the first 
sight that now greets the student's eye as he enters 
the Greek alcove in the college library. Of the scores 
of other works given by him the following titles, se- 
lected from the gifts of the last eighteen months of 
his life, will serve to indicate the class of literature he 
was fond of gathering : 

Junianus Maius. In Librum de priscorum proprie- 
tary verborum Prologus. Tarvisise, 1477. Folio. 
Beautifully illuminated. 

Syllius {sic) Italicus. Punicorum Libri XVII. Ve- 
netiis, 1492. Folio. 

Collection of State Papers Relating to Affairs in the 
Reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth, 1542-1596, 
left by William Cecil, Lord Burghley. 2 vols. 
London, 1740-59. Folio. 

State Tracts published on Occasion of the Late Revo- 
lution in 1688 and During the Reign of King 
William III. 3 vols. London, 1705-7. Folio. 

Sir Ralph Winwood. Memorials of Affairs of State 
in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and James I. 
3 vols. London, 1725. 



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J. Macpherson. Original Papers; Containing the 
Secret History of Great Britain from the Restora- 
tion to the Accession of the House of Hanover. 
2 vols. 1775- Quarto. 

Sir Robert Cotton. Exact Abridgement of the Rec- 
ords in the Tower of London. London, 1657. 
Folio. 

George Cheyney. Fluxionum Methodus Inversa. 
London, 1603. Small quarto. 

Roger Cotes. Harmonia Mensuram. Edidit R. 
Smith. Cambridge, 1722. Quarto. 

Of the great series of photographic reproductions 
of classical and other manuscripts now being issued at 
Leyden, Dr. Hoadly presented the volumes contain- 
ing facsimiles of the oldest extant manuscripts of 
Plato, Plautus, and the Septuagint version of the Old 
Testament. After his death the library received, in 
accordance with directions left by him, his treasured 
copy of the Acts and Laws of the Colony of Connecticut, 
printed at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1673, one of 
the rarest of American incunabula ; and also the orig- 
inal manuscript of Lieutenant Lion Gardiner's Rela- 
tion of the Pequot War. 

In the words of one who knew him well and who 
was constantly associated with him in its direction, 
" there is no part of the library which is especially 
worthy of notice that does not show both his skill in 
selecting and his generosity in giving. 6 

6 Rev. Samuel Hart, D.D. 



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Although the work of organizing and building 
up the state library would seem to have been suffi- 
cient to have kept him fully occupied at the outset 
of his career, Dr. Hoadly was, at the same time, en- 
gaged in transcribing and editing the early records of 
New Haven Colony. The work was published in 
two volumes, the first of which appeared in 1857, me 
second a year later. It embraced the records of the 
colony while it remained distinct, the beginning of the 
records of the Jurisdiction, and the records of the 
Town or Plantation to 1664. The second volume 
included a reprint of New Haven's Settling in New- 
England. And some Lawes for Government. London, 
1656. The quality of the editing in this, his earliest 
contribution to the printed sources of the history of 
Connecticut, reflects the highest credit upon his schol- 
arship and judgment. It shows us, too, that the 
young scholar was not only abreast of his time in 
methods of editing historical manuscripts, but that he 
was in some respects in advance of many of his con- 
temporaries. His work was planned and executed in 
almost exactly the same manner in which a similar work 
would be done to-day by a trained historical specialist. 
The words of his preface are notable in this connec- 
tion, for the method which they describe was by no 
means prevalent at the date they were written. " In 
executing the task of editing these records," he said, 
"accuracy has been the chief thing aimed at, and to 
obtain this neither time nor labor has been spared ; 
4 



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every page has been carefully compared by the editor 
with the original ; contractions and abbreviations have 
been followed, but with regard to the use of capital 
letters and marks of punctuation, it has not been 
deemed necessary strictly to adhere to the copy ; still, 
however, this liberty has been used with caution, and 
the editor has not knowingly altered the sense of any 
passage thereby, preferring in all instances where such 
might be the case, to let the original punctuation 
prevail." 7 

During the troublous years of the civil war Dr. 
Hoadly took no active part in public affairs. That 
he was ready and willing to do so if occasion required 
is attested by the fact that in the executive corres- 
pondence of Governor Buckingham there is a note 
from Mr. Hoadly offering his services in any capacity 
in which he might be of use to his state and country. 

He had succeeded James Hammond Trumbull 
in the office of State Librarian, and he now took up 
in succession to the same scholar the great task of 
editing the colonial records of Connecticut. Between 

7 Compare with this the following passage : " How are we to 
proceed in order to construct the best possible text ? . . . There is 
nothing to do but to reproduce the text with absolute fidelity. 
This rule is not absolute. The editor is generally accorded the 
right of unifying the spelling of an autograph document — provided 
that he informs the public of the fact — wherever, as in most mod- 
ern documents, orthographical vagaries possess no philological in- 
terest." Langlois and Seignobos. Introduction to the Study of 
History, 1898, p. 75. 



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1850 and 1859 Dr Trumbull had published three 
volumes containing the extant records from 1636 to 
1689. This invaluable addition to the accessible 
sources of early New England history, carefully and 
accurately copied from the already crumbling pages 
of the originals, had been given a prompt and cordial 
welcome by those best fitted to judge of its value 
and importance. In the North American Review 
Professor Francis Bo wen of Harvard had said : 
" Their publication is at once an office of piety, the 
erection of a monument to those whose memory 
ought to live forever in the commonwealth which 
they founded, and a service for which the future 
student of history will be grateful. It is the most 
appropriate and truthful eulogy that could be in- 
scribed on the tombstones of the sleeping fathers of 
Connecticut." 8 Dr. Hoadly was beyond question the 
man best qualified by temperament and ability, and by 
possession of the special knowledge requisite, to con- 
tinue the great work so ably begun by Dr. Trumbull. 
With what diligence and thoroughness he carried on 
and brought the undertaking to a successful conclu- 
sion all students of our history are well aware. All 
who have ever examined his work closely well know 
the remarkable qualities that it exhibits. The accu- 
rate transcription of the originals, every page copied 
by his own hand; the extraordinary amount of 
minute and exact knowledge of everything per- 

8 North American Review, 7 1 : 34. 



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taining to our early history and first settlers, the wide 
acquaintance with documents in collections of ar- 
chives outside of Connecticut, — all this is evidenced 
throughout the series of printed volumes which ap- 
peared at intervals of one or two years from 1868 to 
1890. In their modest prefaces, which rarely exceed 
a page or two in length, and are couched in the most 
impersonal of tones, there is neither hint nor mention 
of the enormous amount of time and labor that must 
certainly have been expended upon them. In the 
last, he closes with this brief note : " With this vol- 
ume terminates the series of Colonial Records of 
Connecticut, the publication of which was begun 
forty years ago. My editorial labors commenced 
with volume fourth, 1689-1706, which appeared in 
1868. To all who have in any way aided the work I 
return sincere thanks." It is seldom indeed that we 
find so striking an instance of self-repression and 
absence of personal idiosyncracy. In his published 
work Dr. Hoadly proved himself an exemplar of that 
rarest of literary virtues, and most admirable of all 
virtues, — modesty. The Colonial Records are his 
best monument. His successors will find it difficult 
to maintain the high standard he has set in such 
work. Imitation of externals is all that is left to 
others; they may introduce superficial innovations, 
but none will excel him in the quality of his work or 
in the learning with which he approached it. His 
personality may be forgotten, his material creations 



may vanish from the earth, but his labors on the 
records of the commonwealth will endure as long as 
that commonwealth has sons to love and reverence its 
past. 

Shortly after the publication of the concluding 
volume of colonial records, upon the motion of the 
Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American 
Revolution, the General Assembly of Connecticut 
passed the following resolution : 

" Resolved by this Assembly : That Charles J. 
Hoadly of Hartford be authorized to continue the 
publication of state records, together with the journal 
of the Council of Safety, and any other state docu- 
ments, or other official papers connected with the 
history of Connecticut from 1776 to 1789 inclusive; 
and the secretary of state is hereby requested to fur- 
nish all needed assistance and co-operation for the 
speedy completion of the work. 

Approved, February 23, 1893." 

The first volume resulting from this resolution 
appeared in the following year, and a second, bring- 
ing the records down to 1780, was published in 1895. 
A third volume, entirely ready for the press with the 
exception of a few notes which it was his intention to 
add, was left in manuscript at the time of his death. 
These volumes exhibit the same care and accuracy 
that marked their predecessors, and the notes show 
the editor's wonderfully minute knowledge of our 
revolutionary history. 

Dr. Hoadly issued the New Haven Records and 



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the Colonial Records at his own expense, the State 
agreeing to purchase a certain number of copies of 
each volume. At the time of his death there were in 
his possession about eleven hundred volumes of the 
various issues. These have since been presented to 
the Connecticut Historical Society with the condition 
that the proceeds from their sale shall be set aside to 
form a memorial fund, the income of which shall be 
used only for the purchase of books. 

The titles of his minor works and historical essays 
are given in full at the end of this Memoir and need 
not be repeated here. One or two, however, are 
deserving of especial mention. In 1874 he edited 
Gershom Bulkeley's famous Will and Doom, or the 
Miseries of Connecticut by and under an usurped and 
arbitrary power, written in 1692. It was intended 
that this should form part of the third volume of the 
Connecticut Historical Society's Collections ; but 
when nearly ready for issue, the printing office where 
the work was being done was consumed by fire. By 
rare good fortune, a set of the proof-sheets of the Will 
and Doom was in Dr. Hoadly's hands and so escaped 
destruction. In 1895 this third volume was reprinted 
under his editorship, the cost being defrayed by Ex- 
Governor Morgan G. Bulkeley and his brother Wil- 
liam H. Bulkeley, and by them presented to the 
Society. 

Under a resolution of the General Assembly 
passed in 1870, Dr. Hoadly and D. W. Edgecomb 



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were appointed a committee "to prepare and cause 
to be published ... the private laws of the state 
of Connecticut, passed since the compilation of 1856, 
to form an additional volume or volumes thereto." 
The committee issued two volumes in compliance 
with this resolution, personally comparing every act 
with the record, or with the original or engrossed bill. 
In the first volume, besides the private laws, the com- 
mittee added a list of the banks organized under the 
Free Banking Law of 1852, and the acts providing 
for the Cession of Jurisdiction to the United States 
of portions of the territory of Connecticut. The 
second volume contained an interesting appendix, 
giving the names, location, and date either of the 
organization or of the filing of the certificate, of all 
corporations formed under general laws, to the end 
of the year 1870. These volumes are commonly 
known and referred to as Volumes V and VI of the 
Special Laws of Connecticut. 

A loyal Churchman throughout his life, Dr. 
Hoadly was a member and very regular attendant 
of Christ Church, Hartford, as his father and grand- 
father had been before him. When, therefore, in 
1879, ^ e P ar ' sn celebrated the semi-centennial of the 
consecration of the church, he undertook the writing 
of its annals. To him it was not a task, but a labor 
of love. The finished essay is an excellent example 
of his methods. From land records, parish registers, 
court records, diaries, newspapers, advertisements, 



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graveyard inscriptions, and many another scattered, 
out-of-the-way source, he gathered up every possible 
fact bearing upon the subject in hand, until, at the 
end, there appeared a model history of the Episcopal 
Church in Hartford from 1762 to 1829. 

His one visit to England and the continent took 
place in 1879. One who was with him in London 
said that Dr. Hoadly's memory was better than a 
guide-book, for it never erred. Every street in the 
city proper had for him innumerable historical or 
literary associations. He knew the exact location of 
famous houses and the names of their past owners or 
occupants. Every spot on which had once occurred 
a memorable event seemed as familiar to him as if 
it had been in his native town. He never ceased 
to look back upon this tour with genuine pleasure, 
and was ever ready to recount (to good listeners) the 
incidents that befell him, or the impressions which he 
formed during his journey. He was accustomed to 
say that it was the only real vacation that he had ever 
taken in the course of his life. 

In the early fall of 1898 Dr. Hoadly addressed 
the following letter to the State Library Committee : 

Connecticut State Library, 

Hartford, Sept. 1, 1898. 
State Library Committee, 

Gentlemen : I have had charge of this library 
since 1855, now upwards of forty-three years, which 
with one exception is the longest service of a state 
official in our history. I have entered on my seventy- 



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first year and reel the weight of advancing age. Par- 
ticularly, my sight has become much impaired. I 
therefore respectfully hereby tender the resignation 
of my office, to take effect so soon as you may please. 
With thanks for many kindnesses received 'om 
you and your predecessors, I remain, 

Your obedient servant, 

Charles J. Hoadly. 

As soon as this letter reached the hands of Gov- 
ernor Cooke, he at once communicated with Dr. 
Hoadly, urged him not to make it public, and assured 
him that assistance would be provided in the library 
in order that the last years of his service might not 
be burdensome to one who had served his state so 
long and so well. The other members of the Com- 
mittee cordially endorsed the Governor's words. The 
resignation was withdrawn and the State Librarian 
remained in office until his death. 

During 1899 his health became more and more 
impaired, and after several months of great feebleness 
he died about one o'clock on the afternoon of Friday, 
October 19, 1900. 

In the foregoing pages little has been said of the 
personality of the man. Nor is this necessary. Pos- 
terity will be interested chiefly in his work, and not in 
his personality. As the former was strikingly imper- 
sonal, the latter can serve no purpose in the way of 
explaining it. Some characteristics, however, may 
be briefly indicated. As has been mentioned, he was 
gifted with a memory of unusual accuracy and tena- 
5 



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ciousness. To the end of his life he could repeat ver- 
batim long extracts from Latin authors whose pages 
he had not looked at since his college days. He pos- 
sessed a mind that worked analytically or synthetically 
with equal clearness and power. And to this he added 
extraordinary patience and diligence in research, some- 
times waiting months and even years for an apparently 
trifling bit of information necessary to complete one 
of his illuminating footnotes. 

Some have carpingly complained because he did 
not accomplish more, because he did not leave a 
larger body of literary work. It is difficult to be pa- 
tient with such criticism, which exhibits a wilful igno- 
rance of the purpose and significance of the true schol- 
ar's work. For the sake of impressing the many, he 
might have used his fine powers in the hasty produc- 
tion of a large amount of ephemeral, slipshod work; 
he might have, for a day, loomed large in the public 
eye by reason of striking but unscholarly articles in 
popular journals; by judicious self-advertisement he 
might have used his position as a means for notoriety; 
in his administration of the State Library he might 
even have so lowered himself as to seek for political 
approbation. But because he did none of these things 
lesser men criticise him. 

What, then, did he do*? As scholar and historian 
he occupied himself with the minute details of se- 
verely restricted fields of historical and legal investi- 
gation; preferring rather to work therein with care 



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and accuracy than to treat larger subjects with bril- 
liant inexactness. Instead of a host of unscholarly ar- 
ticles, he left a few volumes, pamphlets, and para- 
graphs whose intrinsic excellence and value are of a 
high order. Many writers, whose books fill long rows 
on library shelves, have given the world less of real 
value than is contained in the thin brochures and 
slight footnotes of Dr. Hoadly. Feeling honored in 
his position, he gave added dignity to it by identify- 
ing himself and his office with serious purposes. For 
that popular applause and noisy fame so hardly striven 
for by weaker men, he probably had no other feeling 
than contempt. He spoke his mind regardless of the 
effect upon the hearer, or, if repeated abroad, upon 
himself. Stories of his cutting replies have long been 
current. Possibly their recipients did not deserve 
them, — very probably they did. To the idly curious 
of all ranks he could address short and sharp rebukes. 
Considering what the world really owes to its patient, 
toiling scholars, they may well be forgiven if some- 
times they show irritation and annoyance under the 
witless questioning of mediocrity. In the presence of 
scholarship it is the business of mediocrity to be silent ; 
if it insists upon braying it must expect the almost 
certain consequences of its indiscretion. " I recall," 
says one who knew him intimately, " I recall the 
scorn with which he spoke of a certain would-be schol- 
arly man who did not know what Wood's Athena 
Oxonienses was (or were)." But a sincere seeker after 



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knowledge who knew how to couch properly the lan- 
guage of his questions, rarely failed to receive help 
and guidance from Dr. Hoadly. That he could ex- 
press things with masterly neatness of phrasing and 
circumlocution is well known to those who have lis- 
tened to his criticisms of men and affairs, or to his 
explanation of the real circumstances surrounding or 
leading up to some event in local and state history. 
In speaking once of a library whose arrangements he 
did not admire, he remarked, " I will not say that it is 
arranged in the worst possible way, because I do not 
know the limits of human ingenuity." 

The esteem in which the man and his work were 
held is evidenced by the positions he filled in the soci- 
eties and organizations with which he was affiliated. 
For many years he was a vestryman of Christ church, 
Hartford, and from 1864 to 1879 clerk of the parish. 
With the work of his college and its graduates he 
kept in close touch throughout his life. From 1865 
to his death he was a valued member of its board of 
trustees, and their secretary from 1865 to 1876, and 
again from 1888 to 1896. He was secretary of the 
Connecticut Beta of the Phi Beta Kappa from 1854 
to 1862, and its president from 1862 to 1867. He 
was a member of the state historical societies of Maine, 
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylva- 
nia, Virginia, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota; of 
the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 
the American Antiquarian Society, and an honorary 



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or corresponding member of several local historical 
societies. In 1894, after serving as its corresponding 
secretary for many years, he was unanimously elected 
president of the Connecticut Historical Society, an 
office to which he was annually re-elected thereafter 
until his death. A lifelike oil portrait, presented by 
himself in accordance with a custom established by 
former presidents, now hangs in the hall of that society. 
The two portraits that accompany this Memoir are 
reproduced from photographs taken at about the 
ages of thirty-three and seventy-one respectively. 
Both are excellent likenesses. 

Upon the formation of the Acorn Club in 1899 
he manifested a cordial interest in its objects, and 
accepted a unanimous election as its first honorary 
member. At his death, there was entered on the 
records of the Club a minute which was in part as 
follows : 

" The Acorn Club of Connecticut desires to place 
upon record its sense of the irreparable loss the Club 
has suffered through the decease, on October 19, 
1900, of its sole honorary member, Charles Jeremy 
Hoadly, LL.D. 

" The high positions that he has held, his general 
recognition as the foremost antiquarian and historical 
scholar of his native state, his important work as ed- 
itor of sixteen volumes of the Connecticut Colony and 
State Records, and of the New Haven Colony Rec- 
ords, and as the author of several historical mono- 



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graphs of high merit, — all indicate how great is Con- 
necticut's loss through his death. 

" To those of us who knew him well, this loss is a 
personal one. We recall with feelings of both pleas- 
ure and sadness his acts of personal kindness, and in 
particular his intense interest in this Club and its ob- 
jects, which touched so closely upon subjects to which 
he had given a lifetime of painstaking study. He at 
all times gave it the benefit of his wise and kindly 
counsel, and in addition presented it with two of his 
historical essays, one of which he had the pleasure of 
seeing issued. As State Librarian he had consented 
to the use, for reissue by the Club, of certain rare vol- 
umes in his custody. 

" His death, the first to occur in our membership, 
removes the Acorn Club's most distinguished member." 

In 1879 Yale College conferred upon him the 
degree of Master of Arts honoris causa, and ten years 
later his own college bestowed upon him the degree 
of Doctor of Laws. Recognition such as this was 
very pleasing to him. From a remark that he once 
made to the writer of this Memoir, there is good rea- 
son to believe that he valued his honorary degrees 
as highly as any honors that ever came to him. 

His modesty as regards his life and work is well 
shown in the brief autobiography that he wrote out a 
year or so before his death. In this volume it appears 
in print for the first time. He considered this a suffi- 
cient record, since he well knew that the onlv fame 



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he could hope for would be a grateful appreciation of 
his work by later investigators of the subjects which 
had engaged his attention. He felt that they would 
profit by the results of his laborious researches, and 
recognize the patient industry, exact scholarship, and 
critical insight that had gone into the making of the 
volumes and essays to which his name was attached 
as author or editor. And who shall say that such a 
reward is not more lasting than any material monu- 
ment 1 ? The scholar can have no greater, no more 
durable fame than the gratitude of successors whose 
labors have been lightened and paths made easier by 
reason of the excellence and thoroughness of his work. 



AUTOBIOGRAPHY 



Charles J. Hoadly, eldest son of William Henry 
and Harriet L. (Hillyer) Hoadley, was born in Hart- 
ford, Connecticut, August first, 1828. His grand- 
father, Jeremy Hoadley, who had removed to that 
town in 1806, from Guilford, was sheriff of Hartford 
county, 1828-34, and represented Hartford in the 
general assembly at four sessions. He was descended 
from William Hoadly, who was born about 1630, 
settled in Branford, Conn., about 1665, which town 
he represented at nine sessions of the legislature be- 
tween 1678 and 1685, and died in 1709. 

The first of the name of Hoadly who came to 
this country was John, bom 1617, one of the first 
settlers of Guilford, Conn., 1639, "when the troubles 
of his country forced his family to New England." 
He was one of the " seven pillars " of the first church 
gathered in Guilford. He returned to Great Britain 
in 1653, was chaplain to Gen. Monk in Scotland, and 
died at Rolvenden, Kent, 1668. His eldest son, 
Samuel, born in Guilford September, 1643, educated 
at King James's college, Edinburgh, took orders in 

9 The Acorn Club is indebted to Mr. George S. Godard for 
permission to use this sketch of which he possesses the original. 
6 



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the church of England, and was at his death master 
of the free grammar school in the city of Norwich, 
England. Samuel Hoadly was the first native of 
Connecticut who wrote and published a book, The 
Natural Method of Teaching, being the Accidence in 
Questions and Answers, London, 1683, a once popular 
school manual, which reached its 11th edition before 
1773. The eldest son of Rev. Samuel Hoadly died 
an undergraduate at Oxford ; the second son was suc- 
cessively bishop of Bangor, Hereford, Salisbury, and 
Winchester; the third and youngest was successively 
bishop of Leighlin and Femes, archbishop of Dublin, 
and archbishop of Armagh. The posterity of John 
the emigrant became extinct in the male line in 1776. 
What relation William bore to him is at present not 
certainly known, but family tradition makes them of 
the same stock. 

Charles J. Hoadly was graduated at the head of 
his class in Trinity College, Hartford, 1851. During 
his college course he received the prize for Latin 
prose composition. He proceeded M.A. in 1854* 
and received the same degree from Yale, 1879. He 
was admitted to the bar in 1855, but never practiced, 
having had charge of the Connecticut State Library 
from the spring of that year. He edited the New 
Haven Colonial Records, 1638-65, 2 vols., and the 
Connecticut Colonial Records, 1689-1776 (vols. 4- 
15), 12 vols., and two volumes of Connecticut State 
Records, 1776-80. All the work of transcription, 



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proofreading, indexing, etc., was done without assist- 
ance. He was one of the commissioners who pre- 
pared vols. 5 and 6 of the Special Laws of Connecti- 
cut. He published several short historical articles, 
among which were a Sketch of the Life of Silas 
Deane, in the Penn. Magazine of History, 1877, 
Annals of Christ Church, Hartford, 1879, Holidays 
in Connecticut, 1888, The Public Seal of Connecticut, 
1889, Town Representation in the General Assembly, 
1892, — the last three in the Connecticut Register for 
those years, — Some Early Post-mortem Examina- 
tions in N. E., read before the State Medical Society, 
1892. He was a member of the State Historical So- 
cieties of Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New 
York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin, Iowa, and 
Minnesota, of the N. E. Historic Genealogical So- 
ciety, and an honorary or corresponding member of 
several local historical societies. He never married. 



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Note. — The editor's own contributions to this volume were as 
follows : 

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